Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simplest of these was tried two years ago, when a freshmen entered the Union wearing the prescribed coat and tie, together with a shirt and a pair of drawers, but nothing else. Such a solution is not to be recommended. The student was placed on probation...
...Alumni Bulletin is conducting its annual competition for undergraduate writers, seeking a pair of students to write the two-page "Undergraduate" column next year. Entires are due by Wednesday May 16. Prospective contributors can find out more about the job at the Bulletin office in Wadsworth House...
More encouraging was the work of a pair of White backs: Brian Reynolds and swimmer John McNamara. Reynolds, particularly, showed a fine ability to spin when hit, and continue forward...
...Rigidly monogamous, a pair of ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...
...Williams, his mind set on buying one white shirt, wilted under Penney's persuasion: "I'm a no-good of a salesman unless I can sell you two." He did. Penney made his way around the store, sat down to fit a shy young girl with a pair of shoes (no sale), happily spotted a miner wearing Penney overalls...